The Summer of Love 1967
The summer of love took place in the summer of 1967. Out of all of the summers ever to take place, the summer of 1967 was called the summer of love because it was a time when the counterculture was just beginning to make its mark in the world as the movement of love and anti-commercialism. More than 100,000 people gathered in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco. This community of young rebels was quite an invigorating sight to say the least.
There were plentiful amounts of drugs, free food, and free love in all meanings of the term. The people of the hippie community in San Francisco tried to show that unity was important. When they would offer music during times like spring break, people by the thousands would go to try and get a feel of this new sensation. As it grew more and more popular, police doubled and got worried about the influence of the hippies on the city. Despite their tries to get rid of the hippies, the population simply grew larger.
The movement just kept on expanding until in that summer of 1967 there were more than 100,000 people. It was a time to remember where young people of the time chose to express themselves in a way that has not been repeated since their time to that extent. They showed passion and unity in the fight for their independence from America’s social classes and represented cultures. It is needless to say that the summer of love of 1967 showed in a huge amount, the new hippie culture that was forming in America.
“Haight Ashbury was a ghetto of bohemians who wanted to do anything - and we did but I don’t think it has happened since. Yes there was LSD. But Haight Ashbury was not about drugs. It was about exploration, finding new ways of expression, being aware of one’s existence,” (Bob Weir).
The summer of love took place in the summer of 1967. Out of all of the summers ever to take place, the summer of 1967 was called the summer of love because it was a time when the counterculture was just beginning to make its mark in the world as the movement of love and anti-commercialism. More than 100,000 people gathered in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco. This community of young rebels was quite an invigorating sight to say the least.
There were plentiful amounts of drugs, free food, and free love in all meanings of the term. The people of the hippie community in San Francisco tried to show that unity was important. When they would offer music during times like spring break, people by the thousands would go to try and get a feel of this new sensation. As it grew more and more popular, police doubled and got worried about the influence of the hippies on the city. Despite their tries to get rid of the hippies, the population simply grew larger.
The movement just kept on expanding until in that summer of 1967 there were more than 100,000 people. It was a time to remember where young people of the time chose to express themselves in a way that has not been repeated since their time to that extent. They showed passion and unity in the fight for their independence from America’s social classes and represented cultures. It is needless to say that the summer of love of 1967 showed in a huge amount, the new hippie culture that was forming in America.
“Haight Ashbury was a ghetto of bohemians who wanted to do anything - and we did but I don’t think it has happened since. Yes there was LSD. But Haight Ashbury was not about drugs. It was about exploration, finding new ways of expression, being aware of one’s existence,” (Bob Weir).
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